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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Archer, Louise; Halsall, Anna; Hollingworth, Sumi – Gender and Education, 2007
This paper considers how urban, ethnically diverse working class girls' constructions of femininities mediate and shape their dis/engagement with education and schooling. We discuss how girls generated a sense of identity value/worth through practices such as "speaking my mind"--which prioritized notions of agency and visibility and resisted the…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Females, Working Class, Gender Issues
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Archer, Louise; Yamashita, Hiromi – Gender and Education, 2003
Discusses how to theorize diverse, working-class male students' masculinities within an inner-city, multicultural context. Data from discussions with boys at one inner-city London school are used to illustrate the boys' complex constructions of culturally entangled masculinities. Examines boys' constructions of "bad boy" masculinities that are…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Inner City
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Archer, Louise; Leatherwood, Carole – Gender and Education, 2003
Introduces a special issue that is positioned against the backdrop of the current "boys in crisis" debate. It focuses on how the articles address embodied identities and material inequalities; social mobility and working class femininities; resisting individualism and rationality; power and responsibility; masculinity and the middle class; and…
Descriptors: Femininity, Gender Issues, Masculinity, Middle Class
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Archer, Louise; Pratt, Simon D.; Phillips, David – Gender and Education, 2001
Discussion groups with diverse working class men who were predominantly non-participants in higher education examined how they used various discourses of masculinity when arguing for and against higher education participation. Discusses potential implications of these discourses for their continued underrepresentation in higher education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Males, Masculinity